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A Better Entrepreneur | Nicola Cairncross - What It’s Really Like To Live & Work Abroad

What It’s Really Like To Live & Work Abroad

A Better Entrepreneur | Nicola Cairncross

07/17/19 • 8 min

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When it works, it works great but when it goes wrong...well, it can be a little frustrating to say the least! This week I have three major obstacles to overcome but there are compensations.... it's all about keeping a sense of perspective!  Clicks And Leads is a "tongue in cheek" digital marketing Vzine by entrepreneur, author, podcaster, speaker, Nicola Cairncross. On the blog Resistance Visualisation What Does Success Mean To You What To Do With Your Goals Beating Resistance - Tip 1 Beating Resistance - Tip 2 What You Focus On Increases Do Your Feelings Control You? Property as a Business Prefer to read? Good morning, it's Nicola here, and today I am coming to you, not live, from Sicky's, one of my favourite haunts in Stoupa. I'm not live because the internet is not good enough either here or next door. And the reason I'm down here even talking to you at all is because my internet at home is not working. It's not been working since Thursday and I've been trying to ring Cosmote, our local telephone providers. And they haven't been picking up at all. So, it's been a little bit frustrating. Yesterday, I was ringing them four a good 4 hours on and off solidly. And it turns out it was a Greek bank holiday and they make have well said that on their recorded announcement, but of course, I don't understand that much Greek. So, I couldn't understand that. Anyway, so I gave up and came down the beach in the end and then went to a party in the evening and tried again this morning at 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock and 9 o'clock. 9 o'clock I got through. The reason I'm telling you all this is because when you're living and working abroad everybody does things differently and you have to be ready to roll with the punches and be a bit flexible. I'm going to lean my elbow on there so I'm not quite as wobbly. It's all about flexibility this week. It's all about what to do when you can't do anything. There's been three reasons why I haven't been able to do anything this week. So, let's get on with the show shall we. Today, I want to talk to you about what it's really like to live and work abroad. Obviously, it's a fabulous day. Let me just show you what I'm looking at today. It's awesome. It's hot. Because you can tell I've caught the sun yesterday. And I have to put factor 30 on because it really is very hot and sunny. But things go wrong, you know. I've got fantastic super fast broadband speed. It works generally 99 percent of the time absolutely fine. But on Thursday night, it decided to go off. It got weaker and weaker and it went and I realised something was seriously wrong when I tried to upload an audio that should've 2 or 3 minutes and it said it was going to take 5 to 7 hours. So, I thought something's wrong here but I didn't know what. So, I started ringing cause the houses in the name of my landlord. I have to get them to ring first then they said that Cosmote said they had to be there. So then it was back onto me. Now you can only ring Cosmote if you have a Greek mobile phone. Now, I have a Greek sim for my mobile but I didn't have a voucher on it. It'd run out. So I ran down to get a voucher and then we were getting ready to call Cosmote and there was just not answer. So this was Monday morning we couldn't work out what was going on. Turns out it was a national election on Sunday and everybody had a bank holiday. They gave them a bank holiday for the next day. So I was trying till lunchtime for four hours on and off and couldn't get through. There was just nobody answering. I got through to someone on sales and then she put me through to technical, but she didn't tell me that technical was shut. Perhaps she didn't know. Then now I've come, I've managed to get through this morning. I was doing it a 7, I was ringing at 8, I was ringing at 9 and there is an option to speak English so I went through to them.

07/17/19 • 8 min

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